Spanish Graduate Program

Post Baccalaureate

For Whom

The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Advanced Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultural Studies requires 15 semester hours and is designed for professionals who may have a bachelor ’s degree in a field other than Spanish but who are able to demonstrate linguistic and analytical skills in Spanish equivalent to having completed a minimum of 21 undergraduate semester hours above the 204 level.

The Program

The goals of this program are

to increase student’s language skills in Spanish to a high level

to prepare qualified candidates for cross-cultural professions

to help prepare instructors who must have at least 18 hours of graduate credit in order to teach Spanish at an accredited community college, four- year college or university. Students may choose to continue with an additional 3-hour course or apply for admission as MA candidates.

Application and Admission

In addition to the application materials required by The Graduate School, applicants to the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Advanced Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultural Studies must provide the following:

500-word essay in Spanish describing their profes- sional goals and motivation for pursuing graduate work in the certificate.

5- to 10-page sample of professional or academic analytical writing in English or Spanish.

Applicants to the certificate program are expected to demonstrate at a minimum an “intermediate high” proficiency in Spanish by appropriate course work, by a personal interview with the faculty, or by an officially recognized testing procedure such as that of the Ameri- can Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.